JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The police chief for eastern Laghman province complains personnel strength at several posts is inadequate, calling for an increase in the number of policemen. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Brig. Gen...

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Three policemen were killed and five others wounded when a suicide bomber on foot detonated his explosives on approaching a security post in the capital of southern Helmand province on Wednesday evening. The attack took place...

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): The new police chief for central Logar province on Wednesday said he had dismissed and reshuffled several police officials in order to combat corruption and improve security. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Daud Ahmadi took charge as...

ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Nine insurgents have been killed and 8 wounded in US drone strike and clashes with security forces in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said Wednesday. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News...

LASHKARAGAH (Pajhwok): Following continuous support of locals to Afghan security forces, Taliban could not advance their plans in the Grishak district in southern Helmand province, the district police chief said.

FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): After killing his three colleagues in the Balablok district of western Farah province, a policeman took all the weapons with him and joined Taliban’s ranks, provincial police spokesman said on Thursday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Interior Minister Noorul Haq Ulumi on Saturday said police would be delivered 542 armoured vehicles and irresponsible armed militias would be disarmed under his ministry’s first 100-day plan. President Ashraf Ghani has directed all...

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Police on Wednesday rejected the provincial Peace Committee’s claims that many districts could fall to the Taliban in northeastern Badakhshan province. Deputy Police Chief Col. Sakhi Dad Haidari said police had not been defeated...

KANDAHAR/GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Two Afghan Local Police (ALP) members on Monday shot dead their five colleagues and fled in the Khakrez district of southern Kandahar province, the second insider attack in a single day. Samim Khpalwak, the spokesman for...

TARINKOT (Pajhwok): Interior Minister Noorul Haq Ulumi on Thursday said the security situation in central Uruzgan province would improve soon and efforts required to train police and meet their needs would be made. Ulumi was speaking in Tarinkot,...